Menna Has, 16, is a school pupil from Saron, Llandysul.

The computer at home is used by me, my brother and mother. If you include the time I spend on MSN, I spend about an hour and a half on the computer every night.

MSN is like a private chat room - all my friends have email addresses, in an email list and we can chat to each other. I spend more time on MSN than anything else. There are about 50 or 60 people in my bit - my friends, people in my year at school, friends who are away at university who I don't see so much any more. If someone has your email address, they can get in; I've only blocked a few people.

If someone is on my list, then I'm on their list too. And every time someone sends me a message, everyone else on my list can see it too.

I've been doing MSN for about a year now. Everyone loves it. It's different to texting or phoning, or writing a letter - it's more modern, more like virtual reality.

Recently we've had exams so we've been talking a lot about revision. We talk about what we're doing - stuff you'd talk about on the phone. A bit of gossip but you're not always quite sure who's reading it. You wouldn't say anything too extreme in case there's anyone there who isn't who they're pretending to be, because anyone can get in who's got the password.

The next big thing is going to be webcams, where you can see who you're talking to. That's going to be great.

I also use the web to look at the Radio 1 site for gigs or whatever. Before I did my exams, I did go on BBC Bitesize an awful lot; we had cards passed out in class and stuff. It was helpful. There are loads of questions, no-one laughs at you if you get it wrong, and it's quicker than getting your parents to read the book.

I don't really log on to sites for teenage girls. I don't really like that kind of thing; I'd prefer to read a magazine. I go on the web to talk to my friends or to get information. That's it.

I'm not quite sure whether there are any settings on the computer at home for safe surfing. My mother's not much of a whizz kid with computers. I do get scared that people might find me on the web and start chasing me. I don't go into proper chat rooms - they're really frightening. It's more at school that we see that kind of thing. What bugs me most is the stuff about winning money and so on, and invitations into chat rooms where you can tell from the pictures what they've got in mind.

My brother and cousin made a website once but I don't understand how it's done, really. At school I have done quite a lot with software; we had to make a video in Media Studies, and I used the video editing software on the iMac.

I don't use the computer as much as my friends. They're into it because they're interested in the computer itself; I'm more into it for the basics - MSN and the web.

Menna, Llandysul